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Thursday, September 5, 2013

The team is finished. Plenty of time to spare. Well, if I had more time I might have given a couple goats multi-color pattern fur, but they're done for now.

My flight leaves in 8 & a half hours. I expect to feel like a zombie since it is nearly the polar opposite of my waking schedule. But that's what I get for being semi-nocturnal.

I'll be sure to take lots of pictures at Chaos Cup and document the games to write up reports to post after I get back.

On to the team!

Since the team is 'Hoves & Horns' there are no Chaos Warriors, so it's nice to have a spare minotaur for the team. I wish i could have squeezed a star Mino for the roster this weekend!

First, the Willy Minotaur which came with the Willy Chaos team:

I don't see many Minotaurs done in white, and since it goes nicely with pink I wanted to give it a try.

I love the detail in the sculpt, especially the scar across his blinded eye. Well, I chose to interpret it as a blinded eye... makes him look fierce.

I wanted a bright pink for the team. For one, the team is devoted to Slannesh, and that's one of that God's signature colors. For another, you rarely see pink uniforms, and usually when you do it's on cheescake-amazons. I think it really draws the eye.

The Ramos Minotaur:

I reviewed this model last month. Another excellent minotaur sculpt, though a very different look.

I decided this one would be black fur, to contrast the white fur of the other minotaur.

It comes with three different right arms: fist, tentacles, and claw.

and take a spin: (click for larger)

That leaves just beastmen for players:

I made six beastmen without mutations.

and six beastmen with mutations:

That should give the team some visual variety along with the different fur/skin colors.

A quick word about the bases:

I changed the bases from standard plastic to resin dungeon stone when I saw the Chaos Cup pitch that was available from Fantasy Fields. Here's a picture of it:

When I saw that, it was a must for me, since I was building a Slanesh-themed team. I had the pleasure of playing on a couple of Fantasy Fields pitches at the North American Team Championship, and they're really nice, so this was a chance to get a fun one. So I figured I should base the team to match!

The bases are from Dragonforge, which are probably my favorite resin bases: nice styles and not too tall (some manufacturer's resin bases are really high and I'm not a fan of very tall bases).

My team's bases are tinted purple, but it seems the photos reduces the color just a bit. I'm thinking it'll be a decent match, and should add to the style of the team to have bases matching the pitch.

Staff:

Cheerleader, Coach and Re-Roll Tokens.

I had a spare ball, so I even gave them their own ball!

Echo prepares to kick the ball!

If nothing else, it will be easy to spot the ball!

The Team:

The Psychedelic Furs

(click for larger)

The Furs now join the other teams in the Hall of Fame page (tab at the top of the blog).

And to Referee their game, the forces of Chaos wouldn't let anyone but one of their own referee at the Chaos Cup!

Scott: Pink can be troublesome. It took longer because I started with a light color, worked down, but in the end I decided it needed a brighter highlight, and then after that? I wanted another. Pink saturates highlights, drawing them back down. Luckily a very bright seems right for 'psychedelic'..just took more effort to get there.

Thanks Sheep, I'll need the luck. This team is more about theme and the look than strong & solid on the pitch ;)

Barks: I have the warriors, they were part of the kickstarter team, and I'm sure I'll paint them eventually... would have been easier to do them at the same time, but then I'd have been painting 20 minis instead of 16 and considering the limited time I had to devote to them I don't think I'd have finished. They'll match the team, though I'm tempted to convert them with bestigor heads ;)

This is great! Love the colors used here, and I think that the first Minotaur is perfect. The colors really came together for that model there, and I think it is perfect. This looks great as a team, and I am sure you will do at the tournament!